Poll: Did you know the proposal was coming?

peaches85 · April 2010

I'm just curious about this...

**Note - Sorry about all of the typos in the poll (long day)

DS0305 · April 2010

I knew it was coming eventually since we had been talking about it and we also went out to look at rings so he had an idea of what I liked.

And then, one of our bowling friends ruined it and basically blurted to me when he was going to propose. So I basically knew the day it was coming. I never told him that I knew it was coming because he would be so upset. Even though I knew when it was coming, I was still in shock and totally surprised that I was finally getting engaged!

mbcdefg · April 2010

I figured it was coming eventually, but I didn't know exactly when. He had asked me about rings a month prior. I got a feeling when we were heading to the spot where he eventually proposed that day. We were sitting on a bench and I patted him on the knee, and tried to be sneaky and see if I could feel anything in his cargo pants pocket, lol, and he knew what I was doing. (The ring was actually in the other leg's pocket, luckily for him.)

We took a trip up to Boston the week prior to the proposal and I thought it was going to happen then, but it didn't. I was a bit disappointed but I figured it might come that summer. He did it the following weekend. (His plan was actually to do it in Boston, but the ring was delivered to the house later than promised so he had to change his plans ... actually, it arrived about an hour after we'd left for Boston, lol.)

Julephenia · April 2010

Not even a little bit... and everyone around me was dropping clues on my head like a ton of bricks.

To be fair to ME, I was in about 5 shows at once/in a row while FI was ring shopping and bringing it home. Then he went to Israel on Birthright, and I was miserable and scared he'd find a nice Jewish girl and worked myself into a frenzy.

So, I picked him up from the airport, he showed off all his Isreal purchases... went into his bedside drawer and broke out the ring.

I also said yes before he got the question out.

(We were roommates before we dated. We tend not to do things in a logical, traditional order. :P)

DandT1206 · April 2010

I put special snowflake. Even though I had a feeling it was coming b/c we talking about it for so long, I didn't snoop around. There were just signs I picked up on. I knew the day he went to buy the stone b/c he was acting shady. And I think I overheard him tell his mom it was in the safe. Then we went on a cruise 2 months later and he was insisting we get a balcony room. And while we were leaving port he was very fidgety and I said to myself "i think this is it" and he proposed on our balcony as we were leaving port.

JennM31 · April 2010

I put special snowflake, because I knew it was coming but didnt know when. I actually knew he was shopping for rings. The proposal came completely out of the blue because he had told me that he was going to wait until he found the ring.. and hinted that the proposal would be on the beach somewhere when it was warmer. Instead it was in Jan and in a hotel room.

jaimelody · April 2010

Yep. I knew it was coming when he said "This is going to be the best thanksgiving ever." And it was the first holiday that we would spend just the two of us in GA. He also fudged by wanted to have our Thanksgiving catered. lol Not gunna happen in my house ever.

rlb81 · April 2010

We talked about getting married 6 months into dating... but the proposal didn't come for another 4 years

We agreed to wait until I finished grad school in May 2009, so I had a feeling it would come shortly thereafter. I had a really strange feeling, leading up to the day it happened, but didn't want to get my hopes up.

We went into the city for dinner prior to a friends birthday party but FI suggested we take a cab (which we NEVER do) and he quietly told the cab driver to take us to the Guggenheim museum (I pretended not to hear). I immediately knew he'd propose- that was the site of our first date (and we hadn't been there since). And there was NO other reason for us to be visiting on a Saturday at 5pm when they were closing soon. He actually proposed in Central Park and it couldn't have been more perfect

Karma01 · April 2010

We talked about getting engaged for awhile. We went away to MD last April and I thought it would happen there but it didn't. I thought then maybe that summer it would but he did it in May and I was completely shocked. 9 months later we were married

HeatherC37 · April 2010

I had a feeling that he was going to propose. I kept trying to push it away so I wouldn't get my hopes up but there were so many little hints.

I actually walked in on him asking my dad for permission. We were having Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmothers and noticed that my FI had been missing for a while. I wandered into the kitchen and saw my dad looking awkward and my FI looking nervous and sweaty.I walked out thinking something was going on I asked him what they were talking about on the way home and he told me it was about my Christmas gift.

My dad was also acting weird the few weeks after that. When ever he mentioned my FI he had to emphazie "boyfriend". My dad also spent an insane amount of money on my FI christmas gift.

I had expected it on Christmas morning but he woke up and jumped in the shower so I figured that I was wrong. Then came the presents. Normally he is shoving them at me to open but he just opened his first with no objection. Then came my gift and even when I saw the small box I assumed it was just earrings or a necklace. Then he came up in front of me and proposed. I was shocked even tho I had a feeling it would happen.

Apparently my dad had it all planned out. He wanted him to propose while we were all opening gifts at my grandmothers house. He had champaigne ready and everything. When I showed my parents that morning, my fathers first reaction was calling my FI a "chicken sh1t". I wouldnt have wanted that anyway. I liked the private proposal.

DMLJ · April 2010

We talked about it (and by we I mean I hinted and hinted and HINTED that I wanted to get engaged) but I didnt think FI was ready financially. In fact, 10 days before the proposal on my b-day I was at a club singing "If you like it than you should have put a ring on it" in his face. Needless to say, the ring was already in our apt hidden!

kristen8040 · April 2010

We had talked about it for awhile before, but we hadn't been together for a really long time and since we had just bought our house, I didn't think he had the money. I went on his computer one day and when I typed in the address bar, his zales account came up and I saw everything! I carried it around on my shoulders for weeks, when my parents randomly came down on a Sunday and I thought that was it! It wasn't but it turns out that's when he asked my dad. One night while watching parking wars in sweats (classy) I was looking at wedding things, a problem of mine considering we weren't engaged. He started asking me all these questions about how long it would take to plan and everything. Eventually he said, you better start planning now, and had it around my shoulder. He had planned on waiting till Christmas, but he couldn't hold onto it any longer lol.

chrissy31805 · April 2010

a week prior to the engagement i had no idea. i was hinting for a very long time and he always kept making remarks like "yeah ok, whatever". then we went away the weekend after christmas and i didnt think he would do it because he said he would never do it on a vacation. but my parents are strict and i wasnt allowed to go away with him so when we went away and he told my parents we were staying at a bed and breakfast i was mortified and i started crying thinking my dad would kill him and he would never be allowed in the house again if he knew we were at a B&B.

so i was acting like a b*tch, crying, and freaking out and really feeling guilty about this little trip and FI looked at me straight in the eye and said "trust me, its ok". after he said that i had a feeling that it was coming that weekend. i just didnt know when... he proposed later that night over dessert, candles, and champagne

jchristel · April 2010

We had talked about it, but only in vague terms, like, "when we're married..." or "when we have kids..." but hadn't actually mapped it all out. We had just celebrated our 2 year anniversary and FI was totally not himself and distracted at dinner. I had to go away for a few day for business, so I was a little unsettled and concerned that he wasn't himself. He shocked me when I got home- it was an amazing surprise after a rough day of travel. I laugh about it because I was wearing the worst sweats outfit ever, had a bad ponytail and actually changed into something nicer after he put the ring on so we could go show our neighbors/friends

Afterwards it all made sense, he was trying to plan ring shopping while I was away- since we live together and work from home a lot, I almost always know where he is. He was trying to figure out if he could pull it all off while I was out of town.

Partymixx27 · April 2010

I put special snowflake. I knew he was going to propose eventually, but we'd been together for 8 1/2 years at that point (and living together already for 5) so I really stopped expecing it. He kept on telling me to have faith in him, that it would happen, and while I did believe him, I was 30 years old, he was 33, there was someething in the back of my mind that kept saying if he were going to propose, he'd have done it already. I was happy just being with him, but at the same time I wanted that final comittment.

So when he did propose, I was honestly just shocked, and totally caught off guard! We were on vacation together in Florida and he proposed while we were watching the sun set. He'd carried the ring around in his pocket the entire day. I should have seen it coming, but I had psyched myself up so many times in the past for proposals that might happen, that I stopped waiting for it. And he got me!

Julephenia · April 2010

DMLJ- FI had my ring for SIX WEEKS before proposing... just sitting there, in our apartment. Totally get that! (I was Hermia in Midsummer Night's Dream that winter, and it was art imitating life - all this focus on marriage... and nothing happening!)

His sister even said, "I know something you don't know." Which was rather the biggest hint EVER, and it went right over my head. For a smart girl, I'm remarkably clueless.

mbcdefg · April 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_new-jersey_poll-did-proposal-coming?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:90Discussion:559f765a-8dd6-483d-b47f-34bf4ae68130Post:4547043d-aed2-4510-a2e2-94ddea7592bf">Re: Poll: Did you know the proposal was coming?</a>:
[QUOTE]DMLJ- FI had my ring for SIX WEEKS before proposing... just sitting there, in our apartment. Totally get that!

Posted by Julephenia[/QUOTE]

I was apparently sitting right next to it at his place one day ... it was on a side table and I was sitting on the couch right by it and didn't notice a thing. He stepped between me and the side table and insisted that we get a move on to go out, which I remember thinking was weird at the time.

I also felt guilty because on the proposal night we went to a sports bar beforehand to watch the hockey game and it was on an hour later than he originally thought it was. I got a bit pissy because I didn't want to spend an extra hour in the bar waiting for it to start and I got biitchy with him over it. After the proposal I felt really bad about snapping at him.

carlaspeed · April 2010

same here, we picked the ring on July and he did not propossed until oct 3, 3 months later, he tried several times, one in a soccer game, one in Montreal, just the moment was not right... at that point it did not matter anymore,in my heart I was engaged since the time he asked me to marry him long time before buying the ring!

jtheiss · April 2010

I came home from work one day and FI had left his email up on the computer open to an email between him, his buddy, and the diamond guy about getting together that coming weekend to shop for the ring. I was kind of disappointed, because I wanted to be completely surprised. But it's probably a good thing that I saw it, because their plan changed last minute and they ended up having to get together on a Friday night (instead of on the Saturday when I would be at a baby shower), so FI lied and said he had to work late. He didn't get home until after 11pm and when he kissed me I could taste beer. If I hadn't seen the email, I probably would have freaked out that he was cheating on me, but since I knew the boys were getting together to look at diamonds I knew that was the reason why. So after that I knew it was only a matter of time. One day he took off work to "finish remodeling the kitchen" and I just had a feeling he was really planning the proposal. So I had a feeling that whole day that I would be proposed to that night and I was. As far as FI knows, I had no idea, but in reality I had figured everything out. I was bummed about it, because I really didn't want to know when it was coming, so I wish FI would have covered his tracks better! But I was happy to be engaged, so I didn't mind that much.

ffbride_0813 · April 2010

MB, my FI had the ring in his pocket and I patted him looking for it too. I didnt feel it. I actually was totally surprised when he did it. We had bought a house and pretty much knew we were getting married. On our second date I told him that I wouldnt date him longer than 5 years without getting proposed. i really thought that as a joke he was going to wait until the 5th year hit and then do it. He did it at 4.5 years at a baseball game. Had i known it was coming I would have drank less and dressed up more. I always expected to cry but when he did it I just laughed because I couldnt believe it was happening and I was a bit tipsy. Then I thought it was a fake ring because he had it in a tiny bag just shoved in his pocket. he didnt want me to see the ring box.

VanessaB24 · April 2010

I didn't have a clue. Thats what made it even better.

Lola Minnie · April 2010

We had talked about it a while and had gone looking together probably a month or two before he proposed to get an idea of what we liked. It turns out what I loved which was a channel band with a round stone, he adored too. So we found bands on tacori's website and he had his jeweler create something similar.

So I had a rough idea when since we went looking and he was designing it. I thought it would be on our 3 year anniversary but it turned out that fell on a jewish holiday so our jeweler was celebrating and unable to give fi the ring then which really upset him. The night before he proposed, I thought it would be then because we went out to a nice dinner and he was all lovey dovey, but he did catch me off guard waking me up the next morning on a Friday to propose as I was still half sleeping and thought it was a dream. He knew he'd get me with the actual day!

dmoney79 · April 2010

i had an idea...we had been talking about rings, but i would bring it up because he was making a commercial for a jewlery store....
then we were at a yankees game, and he said that if a- rod hit a homerun, we'd get married...but he didn't....and i didn't even think he had a ring anyways
(turns out he did have it then...)
he proposed in disney, like, the 4th night we were there....before we left i was saying to all my coworkers that maybe i'd come back with some news....but after the 2nd night, of standing there watching the fireworks, i figured it wasn't going to happen....the night he did propose, i had already just gotten it through my head that it wasn't going to happen in disney, and he'll do it when he's ready....
apparently he was ready about 10mins after those thoughts crossed my mind
i was totally and utterly surprised...i couldn't tell you what he said
i had no idea it was coming, he had the whole thing planned, and during the day we were in universal studios and there was an indiana jones marathon playing so we were there, he wanted to stay for more, i said no we have a dinner reservation etc, he was calm and collected all day...

demarcosjd · April 2010

I had an idea it was coming. We never really talked about it except for mentioning when we are married etc. I never told him what type of ring I liked and we never talked about rings. He planned to take me to PuntaCana for my Birthday. I did think it was a little odd that he kept calling my mom a lot the week before we were going away. Apparently my mom knew for awhile because he got the ring months before we went and both of them were trying to figure out my ring size.

When we got on the plane I thought well if he writes down that he is claiming something of value then I know it is coming! When he asked me to fill out the customs form and he didn't write a thing on there I told myself to get it out of my head it's not happening.

Then came the day of my Birthday we had a great day a great dinner and no proposal. Ok no problem I'm on vacation and I'm here to have a good time. Well then came the next day. Another great day another great dinner. It was that night he asked me to marry him! He didn't want to do it on my exact Birthday so we could celebrate 2 separate days

Melissa66 · April 2010

We were deeply in love and knew we had found our life partner, but marriage never came up. In my mind DH was eventually going to propose, Thanksgiving 2007 was also my birthday. When my birthday cake was presented, my wish was to have DH propose by March 2008. He ended up proposing later that night -- 1 hour later! I was stunned, overjoyed and bawled for hours.

akmackay · April 2010

I knew it was coming... we had looked at rings in April/May 2008, he finally went and bought the ring in August 2008 and he proposed in November 2008, so it was 7 months after we went looking for rings that he proposed. He was acting all weird the week before saying he was taking me out to dinner and I was having surgery the week after. I truly figured it out when he gave up watching his favorite football team on tv (who are rarely on tv in this area) to go home and change for dinner. When he came back with a dozen long stem roses I knew. Especially since my mom walked away and came back as though she had been crying. He took me to a park before dinner and gave another rose and was very quiet, not like him. I have no idea what he said but when he went to go down on one knee I said "no you're not!" I'm such a brat haha. But, I got to look at my ring when I woke up from my surgery that week so it was all worth it haha

mrsdevilguy · April 2010

We had talked about being married here and there. After mentioning to him that I had seen a ring I liked he dragged me into the jewelry store - this was August 2007. I don't really think I thought oh he'll propose by x date.

Little did I know that he went back the very next day and bought one of the rings. He held onto it till March 7, 2008 when he proposed at the Devils game. I thought it may have been happening soon since he kept putting such an emphasis on going to that particular game but pushed it out of my mind since it had been so long since we looked at rings.

hcer0708 · April 2010

We were together for over 9yrs when he proposed. At this point I thought he never would. We went on vacation to Hawaii in October and I had a feeling that if he was going to do it, it would happen then. I had always told him that i would die if he ever did it in public. Im kind of shy so i would rather it be private. Well he did it on stage @ a Luau in front of over 600 people! I thought i was going to die lol

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